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WO von Horn , actually Friedrich Wilhelm Philipp Oertel (born August 15, 1798 in Horn (Hunsrück) , † October 14, 1867 in Wiesbaden ) was a German Protestant pastor and writer for the people and young people.

WO von Horn (1861)

Life

Wilhelm Oertel was the son of the Protestant pastor of the Horn community in Hunsrück and later superintendent Friedrich Peter Paul Oertel (1748-1819) in Koblenz. His grandfather, the cantor's son Johann Paul (1708–1780), had already held the parish office from 1746 to 1780 in Horn. He spent the first six years in his birthplace Horn, which belonged to the Simmern parish until his father moved to the Koblenz parish in 1803 to the first Reformed pastor in Bacharach and another eight years later, in 1812, to the parish of Manubach . In 1815, at the age of 17, Oertel went to Heidelberg to study Protestant theology .

Former Protestant rectory in Manubach

Oertel was ordained in 1819 and took over from his father in Manubach, while his 14 years older brother Friedrich Franz Heinrich Jakob (1784–1863) had been pastor in neighboring Oberdiebach since 1807 . In Manubach Wilhelm Oertel kept a church chronicle with ecclesiastical and secular entries and began his literary work. In 1822 he married Henriette von Saint George. In 1835 he was elected to the first pastor's post in Sobernheim an der Nahe and was elected superintendent of the Bad Sobernheim church district, where he succeeded his brother Friedrich Franz Heinrich Jakob, who had temporarily held the office for a year after moving to Kirn. The school supervision in the area of ​​the church district was connected with the leadership of the church district.

During this time, in 1845, Friedel Oertel's novel began as a literary breakthrough. In 1864 he moved into his own house in Wiesbaden. On October 14, 1867, he died of a stroke . He was buried in the cemetery on Platter Strasse. On the outer wall facing the street, the grave slabs of Oertel and his wife can still be seen today.

Oertel's son Georg Friedrich Hugo (1827–1909) later became pastor and superintendent of Simmern (1883–1907) himself - in Horn (1854–1864), Ottweiler and Simmern. His grandson Richard Oertel (1860–1932) became a pastor in Neuerkirch and a member of the Reichstag .

Artistic creation

In order to supplement his household budget, Oertel began to write historical-romantic stories , initially under the pseudonym FW Lips; he had derived this from his first name Friedrich Wilhelm Philipp. After only moderate success, he changed his style and his pseudonym. He now wrote under WO von Horn, which was derived from his initials Wilhelm Oertel and his place of birth Horn, novels and stories. His literary breakthrough began with his first novel Friedel . From 1846 he published an annual calendar, Die Spinnstube , with stories, teachings and riddles . From 1850 to 1867 he wrote 75 folk and youth books for his publisher Julius Niedner in Wiesbaden.

His most beautiful and elaborate work is The Rhine, history and legends of its castles, abbeys, monasteries and cities , with 36 steel engravings, descriptions and legends of the Rhine valley between Worms and Cologne, published in 1867.

Works (selection)

  • Friedel (1846)
  • The spinning room , an annual calendar, from 1846
  • Apprenticeship fee (1850)
  • Collected Stories (12 volumes, 1850–1852)
  • The old blacksmith Jacob's stories (1852)
  • Hand in hand (1852)
  • Rhenish village stories (4 volumes, 1854)
  • The Maje (a monthly from 1858 to 1865)
  • The Lord is my shield (around 1860)
  • The Rhine, history and legends of its castles, abbeys, monasteries and cities (first edition 1867)

The website of his birthplace offers a collection of links for his works accessible on Google Books .

archive

In Manubach there is an archive with memorabilia and a collection of mostly first editions of his works, which is accessible by agreement with the local community.

WHERE from Horn Museum

In Wilhelm Oertel's birthplace Horn in the Hunsrück there since May 2013, the main road 11 one operated by private WO von Horn Museum, which also includes local cultural assets and the Glanrind will inform Horse Owning the Hunsrück.

literature

  • Karl-Richard Mades: WO von Horn, the native and folk writer . 2nd Edition. Ev. Parish of Oberdiebach-Manubach, 1998, ISBN 3-00-002882-X
  • Hugo Oertel: WO von Horn (Wilhelm Oertel), a true friend of the people . Niedner, Wiesbaden 1868
  • WHERE from Horn . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 34 : Ö – Öyslebö . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1922, Sp. 180 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

Web links

Wikisource: WO von Horn  - Sources and full texts
Commons : WO von Horn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ What Horn on Google Books
  2. ↑ Contact via the local mayor and archive founder Karl-Richard Mades near Manubach
  3. ↑ Local website (archive) about the museum, accessed in December 2013
personal data
SURNAME Horn, WHERE from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oertel, Friedrich Wilhelm Philipp; Lips, FW
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Horn (Hunsrück)
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1867
Place of death Wiesbaden